London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First Edition. Triple decker first edition in book form, uniformly bound in a Riviere & Son full polished calf binding with original cloth bound at the rear of each volume. A nice set of one of Collins’s last novels, a didactic novel attacking vivisection...

London: M. Cooper, 1751. First Edition. London: , 1751. First edition. Purportedly the first English novel about a dog. Grolier notes this work is “one of the earliest examples of that type of satirical novel in which abuse is hurled at real persons through the medium of animals or inanimate.....

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Henry Gibb, Liberator Office, 1840. First Edition. First edition. Provincially published work of poetry by a Chartist-affiliated publisher, when Fettes was 21 and a student at the University of Edinburgh, it was apparently his first work as the comparatively lengthy introduction (which spans 1/7th of the entire volume) notes.....

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees . . . 1815. Quadruple decker second edition of the anonymously published polemical novel. Affectionally referred to as the “brave-hearted lady” by Carlyle, the republication of this work in 2003 brought renewed, and deserved, attention to the long-neglected proto-feminist author. In his introduction to.....

London: D. N. Shury, for J.F. Hughes, 1805. First Edition. First edition of Monk Lewis’s translation, from the German, of Zschokke’s sensational gothic romance Abällino, der grosse Bandit, first published in 1793. In Coleridge’s view, this work exhibited the “wonder of effects produced by supernatural power, without the means,”.....

London: Reeves and Turner, 1889. First Edition. Inscribed presentation copy from Morris to Ford Madox Brown, dated December 1888. An exceptional Pre-Raphaelite association. Brown was a British painter closely aligned with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an “old and intimate” friend of Morris, and a founding partner of Morris’s design company.....

London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, [1929]. Limited edition, #25 of 525 hand-numbered copies for England, signed by Rackham, in publisher’s full vellum with gilt title and spine. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 11 color plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. 4to. [iv], 5-232pp.....

London: William Pickering, 1833. First Edition. First edition of Shaw’s beautifully illustrated work on the art of illumination and depicting ornamentation from the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. A splendid work featuring an illuminated extra title page and 59 hand-colored lithographs. Ruari McLean in Victorian Book Design & Colour.....

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-1859. First Edition. First edition in the original 24 parts as issued. First issue, with “actresses” for “ancestresses” on p. 207, No. 7, line 15 from the bottom, in part 12, chapters XLVII-XLVIII misnumbered XLVIII-XLIX, and including the explanatory slip in part 20. While.....

London: Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. First edition from the famed press set up at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole’s London villa. According to Walpole’s introductory advertisement, “Lord Whitworth’s little treatise will throw considerable lights upon the formation of the Muscovite power, and upon the plans of the extraordinary genius.....